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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by BOLD IMPACT.

Totals

Total revenue
$302,741
Total expenses
$790,716
Contributions and grants received
$302,741
Grants paid
$400,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$490,514
Total liabilities, end of year
$48,628
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$441,886
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$698,506
Management and general expenses
$68,290
Fundraising expenses
$23,920
Program service expenses (Part III)
$698,506

Program services were 88.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $302,741

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $300,000 · program services $300,000

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $100,000 · program services $100,000

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $218,750 · program services $175,000 · management and general $21,875 · fundraising $21,875

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $12,471 · program services $9,977 · management and general $1,247 · fundraising $1,247

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $3,500 · management and general $3,500

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,490 · management and general $5,490

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $56,026 · program services $43,426 · management and general $12,600

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $10,958 · program services $10,833 · management and general $125

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $4,815 · program services $3,689 · management and general $1,126

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $6,282 · program services $5,580 · management and general $535 · fundraising $167

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $27,984 · program services $25,536 · management and general $1,867 · fundraising $581

  • 17 · Travel

    total $18,056 · program services $18,056

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $3,875 · program services $3,875

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,978 · management and general $2,978

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bank fees

    total $11,804 · management and general $11,804

  • 24b · Other expenses: Dues

    total $2,794 · management and general $2,794

  • 24c · Other expenses: Meals

    total $2,786 · program services $729 · management and general $2,057

  • 24d · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping

    total $1,878 · program services $1,668 · management and general $160 · fundraising $50

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $269 · program services $137 · management and general $132

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $931,605 · end of year $490,514

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,744 · end of year $44,753

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    end of year $3,875

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $513,917 · end of year $350,886

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $415,944 · end of year $91,000

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Bold Impact is a national non-profit dedicated to leveraging the power of technology and media to build a world where all communities can thrive. Bold Impact stewards programs that address inequality in technology, media and community care and support building meaningful, diverse thriving communities supported by a healthy information and innovation ecosystem.

  • Bold Impact is producing Future Well's facilitated salon series and issuing capital grants resourcing a network of media leaders working to build a diverse, vibrant future where all communities can thrive. The Future Well program nurtures a collective and builds interlocking points between media, journalism leaders, and innovation economies. The program centers the needs of creative media innovators serving Black and Brown communities. In 2023, Bold Impact launched Future Well?s founding cohort. Future Well is building power for a diverse local media journalism ecosystem by resourcing innovative entrepreneurs. Future Well?s program seeded resources for a diverse, vibrant, and democratic innovative economy, creating a beautiful community for today?s future. In total, Future Well has issued 10 grants to organizations/individuals and 17 journalists, media, technology, and cultural change entrepreneurs. Leaders identify as Black, Brown, Latinx, LGBTQI, non-binary, immigrants, and formerly undocumented. Subject matter expertise included: racial justice, local journalism, disinformation, Latinx communities, food & culture, community organizing, technology, and the arts. Cohort members participate in monthly facilitated salon series, survey engagement, organizational strategy advising and office hours support.

    Expenses $514,936 · Grants $400,000

  • Rights x Tech is a program that facilitates a network and a forum for innovative movement leaders, technologists from top technology companies, finance and policy experts to explicitly interrogate the most pressing human rights issues the ecosystem is reckoning with today. It was designed as a clearing for relational bridge building between individuals within technology companies and top movement/policy strategists to co-pollinate both ecosystems with interventions in technology policies, digital rights, strategy, and platform development that are inclusive of human rights and lessen harms for marginalized and vulnerable communities. In 2023, the Rights x Tech spun the program?s flagship publication ?Call To Action? into a newsletter brand. Safety, Solidarity & Technology with Seyi Akiwowo, founder of Glitch and author of ?How To Stay Safe Online? and partnered with online booksellers to distribute the book to RxT community members. Rights x Tech also continued to spearhead work for Technology for Inclusive Recoveries, spun out of the RxT archived pandemic data project: COVID Racial Impact Data Alliance.

    Expenses $70,714

  • Through Bold Impact combined Emergent Campaigns and Special Projects initiatives, emergent campaigns intend to respond to current events, trends, and emergent issues in technology and media impacting the rights, protections, and well-being of Black and Brown communities. Bold Impact develops special projects as accelerants to existing programmatic work and pairs with partner organizations to integrate the campaigns for continuity. Through this, the organization continues its pilot of women of color leadership well-being circle and community network. Provide strategic advice to movement leaders. In response to the rising movement to ban books and undermine local civic infrastructure provided by public libraries, Bold Impact is designing a creator-in-residence program for public libraries. The campaign will pair thoughtful Black and Brown social media content creators with resources and creative tools to be in-house storytellers and civic champions for their community library system.

    Expenses $54,552

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Sabrina Hersi Issa

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $218,750
    From this org
    $175,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,750
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $43,750
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $218,750
  • Isra Pananon Weeks

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Rachel Weidinger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Adele M Stan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Independent compensation consultant
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

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Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
18 June 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202421709349301147

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